Year 2/3 Mixed Age English Planning
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We’ve been busy spring cleaning our poetry blocks.
Our revised summer poetry blocks should be on the site in May, the autumn ones in July, and the spring ones in September.
Autumn Blocks
Explore features of traditional tales and answer comprehension questions using A Year Full of Stories and Starbird. Investigate different forms of the past tense and learn to wrote expanded noun phrases. Plan and write your own stories featuring a 'star creature' and different story locations.
Traditional Tales: Around the World
Enjoy two books featuring the 1969 moon landings, The Sea of Tranquility by Mark Haddon and The Darkest Dark by astronaut Chris Hadfield. Compose chronological reports about Apollo 11's mission. Plan and write recounts and fact files about dream jobs. Explore subordinating conjunctions and common prefixes.
Recounts: Space Travellers
Enjoy using The Night Gardener as inspiration for descriptive writing. Create instructions for planting seeds based on The Girl Who Planted Trees. Explore past and present tense and learn about contractions and possessive apostrophes. Share The Woman Who Turned Children Into Birds and write an imaginative recount of a day as a bird.
Stories on a Theme: Nature
Think like a scientist with this exciting block focusing on instructions and explanations. Meet Ada Twist, Scientist, and follow her lead by carrying out an experiment, writing instructions for others and explaining how things work. Learn about sentence types and conjunctions along the way.
Instructions and Explanations: Ada Twist, Scientist
Spring Blocks
Enjoy reading stories about Anna Hibiscus and her family and jump into the exciting world of the No. 1 Car Spotter. Learn about verb tenses, punctuating dialogue and bring it all together to write a short story of your own.
Stories by the Same Author: Atinuke
Using Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular, Polly Owen and Moth: An Evolution Story, Isabel Thomas find out more about animal adaptations.
Information Texts: Adaptation
Spark important conversations about emotions with a selection of stories about feeling angry: The Day No One Was Angry, Angry Arthur and The Tunnel. Learn how to correctly punctuate dialogue, use prepositions to add information before ending the block by writing a short story.
Stories on a Theme: Feeling Angry
Take inspiration from the remarkable people featured in this block: Marcus Rashford, Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg, among others. Study the features of biographical and autobiographical texts and research and write a short biography.
Biographies: Inspirational People
Summer Blocks
Explore the excitement of Roz's adventures in The Wild Robot through comprehension activities, writing diary entries and describing settings. Grammar work focuses on expanded noun phrases and punctuating dialogue.
Adventure Stories: Wild Robot
Explanations: Space
Read and enjoy a wonderful selection of classic poems; discuss poetic features, investigate language and prepare a performance. Grammar includes sentence forms and expressing time, place and cause.